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 2006/3/27-29 [Science/Physics, Reference/History/WW2] UID:42450 Activity:kinda low 3/27 This is a very stupid and specific question regards to design of main battle tank: why the main gun of most of main battle tank in the world are smoothbored instead of rifled? \_ Just a guess but the advent of laser guided missiles obviated the need for point-to-point riffled payloads. In another word there is no longer a clear need for line-of-sight with modern missiles. \_ I'm not an MBT designer, but I would guess that they're able to accomplish the desired accuracy/range with a smoothbore, and a rifled shell has less explosive power (because it needs a heavier casing to withstand the greater stress of the rotation). Mortars shells contain more explosive than equivalent-sized artillery shells for the same reason (which makes them particularly deadly for urban fighting). Oh, and the M1 (but not the A1 or A2 variants) and the new Stryker multi-tank-thing, plus the British Leopard and a few others, all have rifled cannon. -gm \_ Find-stabilized shells, among others. Not all MBT barrels are smoothbore (examples are Rheinmetall 120mm and several of the newer Soviet ones.) What above poster said too, but it's not so much the explosive power as for accuracy of heavier shells. Also rifled barrels wear out faster. -John \_ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoothbore \_ thanks. This is cool. \- Hello, I too am not a MBT designer but having some knowledge of EULER && LAGRANGE && NEWTON, I suspect the Moments of Inertia which would characterize a tank shell would suggest it would not be amenable to rotional stabilization as a small, cigar shaped shell would be. For a discussion accessible to a science undergrad see e.g. http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/336k/lectures/node74.html particlarly the two conclusions at the bottom of the page. For a more involved discussion, see the famous: http://csua.org/u/fc6 A simple demonstration of this can be done with a bed pillow which isnt too floppy. say it is 20" long, 14" wide and 6" deep. which isnt too floppy. say it is 2ft long, 1.5ft wide and 6in deep. if you throw it up in the air in front of you spinning about each of the possible axes, you will notice it is obviously less stable when you spin it about the 1.5ft axis or "middle" Moment of Inertia axis. you spin it about the 14" or "middle" Moment of Inertia axis. This is actually something pretty cool to prove, rather than just one of these artificial physics problems. And now we can talk about THE FEYNMAN SPRINKLER. \_ My classical mechanics text called this The Tennis Racket Theorem. I tend to think a better example is with skateboards. Rotating around the principle axis with the smallest moment of inertia is a kickflip, rotating around the axis with the largest moment of inertia is a varial or a shove-it, but the unstable middle axis is called the "ollie impossible" for good reason. Both the kickflip and the varial can be done by just kicking the board and landing, but the impossible generally involves guiding to board around with your foot to keep it stable. At least that's how I do it. I could kickflip and varial years before I learned the imposible, which I think you'll find is typical of most skaters. Of course I could do all three years before I knew what a moment of inertia tensor was or could prove the tenis racket theorem. \_ My classical mechanics text called this The Tennis Racket Theorem. I tend to think a better example is with skateboards. Rotating around the principle axis with the smallest moment of inertia is a kickflip, rotating around the axis with the largest moment of inertia is a varial or a shove-it, but the unstable middle axis is called the "ollie impossible" for good reason. Both the kickflip and the varial can be done by just kicking the board and landing, but the impossible generally involves guiding to board around with your foot to keep it stable. At least that's how I do it. I could kickflip and varial years before I learned the imposible, which I think you'll find is typical of most skaters. Of course I could do all three years before I knew what a moment of inertia tensor was or could prove the tenis racket theorem. \- Oh, i havent heard that name. what CM text? that is a pretty good name, although since a rackt isnt symmetric in one of the axes, people may get distracted by that. i didnt claim a pillow was the best object to demonstrate, but i think more people on the motd have a pillow than a skateboard. but sure, i think people have an intuitive sense of the instability of of the "middle rotation" with the s'board and racket. i always liked the calculations/proofs that had physical interp ... kepler planet laws, calculate escape velocity, period of a pendulum indep of mass ... more than the contrived problems. \_ Barger and Olsson, which I loathed. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0070037345/sr=8-2/qid=1143569740/ref=sr_1_2/103-6187066-5024642?%5Fencoding=UTF8 I really liked that class, and learned from a mix of different books plus lecture, but I do not recomend this book except for a couple random topics. I see what you mean about pillow vs. skateboard. I guess my point is that while the typical pillow user does not do a whole lot of rotational mechanics experiments, the typical skateboard user spends hours and hours conducting those experiments and develops a certain intuition about it. \_ I replied earlier and it got deleted. The text was Barger and Olson[sp?], which I do not recommend. The class kicked ass, but that text was overall pretty weak. I see what you mean about more people having access to a pillow. My arguement is that while there are fewer skateboard users than pillow users, most pillow users rarely do rotational mechanics experiments with their pillows whereas skaters spend so much time doing these experiments that they have multiple names for all three of the principle axes. Also, I think a lot of non-skaters now know what the kickflip and the ollie impossible are because of that Tony Hawk video game. \- oh, i have not heard of that book. i didnt think MARION and THORNTON was that exciting. GOLDSTEIN was really good but pretty hard. herstein:algebra:: goldstein::mechanics. VI ARNOLD was life changing, but really that is an EVANS HALL book not a LECONTE book. have you also used LANDAU and LIFSHITZ? I have only analyized their awesome Stat Mech book, but their Classical Mech book is also supposed to be awesome. BTW, the AMAZONG comments for some of these books are pretty funne, esp for MISNER && THORNE && WHEELER. oh, i suppose you can alos do the "tennis racket" experiment with an UNOPENED CEREAL BOX. One of my favorite AMAZONG comments is from UCB MONSTER FIELDS PROFESSOR about BOGOLIUBOV QFT book at: http://csua.org/u/ahe \_ I think the Jackson comments on Amazon are some of the funniest. Also the comments on Wolfram's latest doorstop are hillarious. Yeah, L&L rules. I used that a bit during the course. Where you a physics major, or are you just into it for fun? \_ started in physics but didnt want to do 111 and a year of 110 [i spent some time designing the polarimetery system of a satellite so i got enough EM on the job] so ended up doing a lot of work in smplectic geometry and ergodic theory and lie algebras. \_ thanks... i flunked my Fizzix 7A :p \_ I tried the pillow experiment. That is cool.
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